re: #143 Colère Tueur de Lapin

This has been a day. The younger son just bought an electric car (his first car; he still lives at home, so his expenses are mitigated and he can play it off quickly) and it turns out, that we needed to have the electrical system upgraded. Turns out, there is a limit to the amount of power that comes into your house. I had assumed you could suck as much power as needed,b but. That is not how it works. I assume people with more 440V works already knew this factoid. We were limited to 200 amps incoming.

So, the electrician is upgrading us to a 400 amp system so we can install the 60 amp charger for his car. We have had no power all day. As fortune had it, I had no meetings, so lack of WiFi didn’t hurt. The new circuit breaker boxes and wires are all much tidier and prettier, they’re new. In theory, they are also supposed to actually label the circuits, but I am not sure if that will happen.

It cost me about $500 to upgrade my box when I got the charger for the Bolt. The good news is that it was immediately paid for because NJ doesn’t charge sales tax on EVs.

Which car did he get? I’m driving a 2017 Bolt.